Pipe-hanger.



I. F. PENNIMAN,

PIPE HANGER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15. 1914.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

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IRA r. PENNIIVLAN, or NEEDI-IAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

PIPE-HANGER.

Specification of Letters .Eatent.

Patented J an. 152, 1915..

Application filed June 15, 1914. Serial No. 845,214.

To all 7.071 0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA F. PENNIMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Needham, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usful Improvements in Pipe- Ilangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention. relates to improvements 1n devices for supporting or hanging plpe and resides in the provision of a simple and inexpensive device by means of which a pipe may be supported or suspended from a wall or ceiling in spaced relation to said wall or ceiling in a reliable manner.

Another object is to provide a hanger of the kind described that is constructed of few parts and which may be readily assembled and disassembled and also arranged to hang up a pipe.

The above and additional objects are accomplished by such means as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification and then more particularly pointed out as claimed.

WVith reference to the drawings, wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of my invention as it is reduced to practice, and throughout the several views of which similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved hanger showing it attached to a cell ing and a pipe held in place and in sections, certain parts of my device being broken. away for the sake of clearness, and F g. 2 is a detail top plan view of the side circular supporting bracket.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference, the numerals 1 and 2 designate lengths of suitably stiff wire adjacent the main or body part of my device as shown, said wires being twisted about one another intermediate their ends to provide a shank 3. The wire 1 is extended from the upper end of the shank to provide a securing member 4 which is screw threaded and pointed adjacent to its outer end.

From the inner end of the shank 3, the wire 2 is twisted to provide a number of circular coils 5 and extends in a plane at right angles to the shank and increased in diameter or circumference toward the free end of the member 4, the coil that is fixed adjacent the inner end of the shank 3 being smaller and the others increasing in size so that an approximately frusto-conical body 6 is provided. T he innermost or larger coil 6 is designed to engage the wall or ceiling as the case may be, and surrounds and is spaced from the pointed and threaded end of the member 4, so that said member 1 may be inserted sufficiently far into a wall or ceiling to support the device. All of the coils 5 surround the member 4, said member being positioned between the center of the coil. It will be readily seen that a comparatively large bearing surface is provided by the coils or body 6 and the strain on the member is lessened for this reason.

From the outer end of the shank 3, the wires 1 and 2 are extended in divergent planes and provide disposed clamping arms 7 and 8 which arms are formed intermediate their ends so as to conform to the curvature of a cylindrical pipe A. Right angularly and outwardly extending eyes 9 are formed on the free ends of the arms 7 and 8 and are designed to cooperate with similarly formed eyes 10 of the ends of a U-shaped or semicircular wire bracket 11 which is formed of the same material as the wires 1 and 2 and designed to engage the outer face of the pipe A when said pipe is to be supported or suspended. To hold the brackets 11 in clamping relation to the pipe A, I provide the bolts 12 that are inserted through the eyes 9 and 10 that have nuts 13 turned on their unheaded terminals. The clamping of the pipe A and releasing thereof may be readily effected through the medium of the bolts 12 and nuts 13. When it is desired to support a pipe close to a wall or ceiling one or more of the coils 6 may be cut off to provide such arrangement. The coils 5 closely engage one another so that a comparatively rigid body is provided and when it is desired to have the device angularly disposed with relation'to the wall or ceiling the coil that is to engage the wall or ceiling may be bent angularly.

In practice, I have found that the form of my invention, illustrated in the drawings and referred to in the above description, as the preferred embodiment, is the most efficient and practical; yet realizing that the conditions concurrent with the adoption of my device will necessarily vary, I desire to emphasize the fact that various minor changes in details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, when required without sacrificing any of the advantages of my invention, as set forth.

What is claimed is 1- 1. A pipe hanger consisting of a pair of wire lengths twisted about one another to provide a straight shank, one of the wires extended from the shank and formed into a number of circular coils extended at right angles to the shank and increasing in circumference away from the shank to provide a frusto conical body, the other of the wires being extended from the shank through the coils and beyond the outermost coil and pointed and threaded at its ends, and the lower ends of the wire lengths being diverged to provide pipe engaging arms and means to partially surround a pipe to be secured to said arms to support a pipe upon a hanger.

2. A pipe hanger consisting of an approximately frusto-conical body engaged to the wall, ceiling or object to which the hanger is secured at its larger end, a securing member, a shank formed on the apex end of the body extending outwardly therefrom, said securing member formed on the inner end of the shank, extending through and beyond the body and being pointed and threaded at its outer end, clamping arms carried by the shank to engage a pipe, a bracket to cooperate with the clamping arm in securing a pipe and means to secure the bracket to the arms.

3. A pipe hanger consisting of a pair of wire lengths twisted about one another intermediate their ends provided with shanks, one of the wires being extended from the shank and being bent into a number of circular coils extending at right angles to the shank and each coil being larger than the other, the smaller coil next adjacent to the shank, the larger coil to engage the ceiling or wall or like object to which the device is to be secured, the other wire being extended from that end of the shank at which the smaller coil is formed through all of the coils and beyond the outer larger coil, said wire being threaded and pointed at its free end, the wires being extended from the other end of the shank in divergent planes and to provide clamping arms, said clamping arms being bowed intermediate their ends to conform to the curvature of a pipe to be secured, outwardly and right angularly extending eyes on the free ends of the clamping arms, a U-shaped bracket to cooperate the clamping arms in securing a pipe, right angularly extending eyes extended outwardly from the free ends of the bracket and formed integral therewith, bolts inserted through the eyes and nuts turned on the unheaded terminals of the bolts.

4. A pipe hanger consisting of a pair of wires being twisted about each other intermediate their ends to provide a shank, one of the wires being extended from one end of the shank and bent into a number of circular coils and increased in circumference toward the free end of said wire, the other of said wires being extended through the coils at one end and having a certain end threaded and pointed, clamping arms at the other end of the shank to cooperate with the clamping arms to support a pipe.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

IRA F. PENNIMAN. l/Vitnesses WILLIAM G. MOSELEY, MARY E. MosELEY.

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Washington, I). C." 

